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<A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I and my concubine went to Gabaa of Benjamin to lodge. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the men of Gabaa rose up against me, and compassed the house by night against me; they wished to slay me, and they have humbled my concubine, and she is dead. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And I laid hold of my concubine, and divided her in pieces, and sent <i>the parts</i> into every coast of the inheritance of the children of Israel; for they have wrought lewdness and abomination in Israel. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, all ye <i>are</i> children of Israel; and consider and take counsel here among yourselves.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And all the people rose up as one man, saying, No one of us shall return to his tent, and no one of us shall return to his house. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And now this <i>is</i> the thing which shall be done in Gabaa; we will go up against it by lot. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Moreover we will take ten men for a hundred for all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred for a thousand, and a thousand for ten thousand, to take provision, to cause them to come to Gabaa of Benjamin, to do to it according to all the abomination, which they wrought in Israel. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And all the men of Israel were gathered to the city as one man.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the tribes of Israel sent men through the whole tribe of Benjamin, saying, What <i>is</i> this wickedness that has been wrought among you? <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now then give up the men the sons of transgressors that are in Gabaa, and we will put them to death, and purge out wickedness from Israel: but the children of Benjamin consented not to hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And the children of Benjamin were gathered from their cities to Gabaa, to go forth to fight with the children of Israel. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the children of Benjamin from their cities were numbered in that day, twenty-three thousand, <i>every</i> man drawing a sword, besides the inhabitants of Gabaa, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men of all the people, able to use both hands alike; <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>All these could sling with stones at a hair, and not miss.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the men of Israel, exclusive of Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword; all these <i>were</i> men of war.<p> <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">Civil War against Benjamin<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And they arose and went up to Baethel, and enquired of God: and the children of Israel said, Who shall go up for us first to fight with the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Juda shall go up first as leader.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gabaa. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And they went out, all the men of Israel, to fight with Benjamin, and engaged with them at Gabaa. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the sons of Benjamin went forth from Gabaa, and they destroyed in Israel on that day two and twenty thousand men down to the ground. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the men of Israel strengthened themselves, and again engaged in battle in the place where they had engaged on the first day. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the children of Israel went up, and wept before the Lord till evening, and enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall we again draw nigh to battle with our brethren the children of Benjamin? and the Lord said, Go up against them.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the children of Israel advanced against the children of Benjamin on the second day. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the children of Benjamin went forth to meet them from Gabaa on the second day, and destroyed of the children of Israel yet further eighteen thousand men down to the ground: all these drew sword. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Baethel; and they wept, and sat there before the Lord; and they fasted on that day until evening, and offered whole-burnt-offerings and perfect sacrifices, before the Lord, <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>for the ark of the Lord God <i>was</i> there in those days, <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>and Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron stood before it in those days; and the children of Israel enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall we yet again go forth to fight with our brethren the sons of Benjamin? and the Lord said, Go up, to-morrow I will give them into your hands.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And the children of Israel set an ambush against Gabaa round about <i>it</i>. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and arrayed themselves against Gabaa as before. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the children of Benjamin went out to meet the people, and were all drawn out of the city, and began to smite and slay the people as before in the roads, whereof one goes up to Baethel, and one to Gabaa in the field, about thirty men of Israel. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And the children of Benjamin said, They fall before us as at the first: but the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them out from the city into the roads; and they did so. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And all the men rose up out of their places, and engaged in Baal Thamar; and the liers in wait of Israel advanced from their place from Maraagabe. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And there came over against Gabaa ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel; and the fight <i>was</i> severe; and they knew not that evil was coming upon them. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And the Lord smote Benjamin before the children of Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin in that day a hundred and twenty-five thousand men: all these drew sword.<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten; and the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted in the ambuscade which they had prepared against Gabaa. <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And when they retreated, then the liers in wait rose up, and they moved toward Gabaa, and the whole ambush came forth, and they smote the city with the edge of the sword. <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And the children of Israel had a signal of battle with the liers in wait, that they should send up a signal of smoke from the city. <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And the children of Israel saw that the liers in wait had seized Gabaa, and they stood in line of battle; and Benjamin began to smite down wounded ones among the men of Israel about thirty men; for they said, Surely they fall again before us, as in the first battle. <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And the signal went up increasingly over the city as a pillar of smoke; and Benjamin looked behind him, and behold the destruction of the city went up to heaven. <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And the men of Israel turned back, and the men of Benjamin hasted, because they saw that evil had come upon them. <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And they turned to the way of the wilderness from before the children of Israel, and fled: but the battle overtook them, and they from the cities destroyed them in the midst of them. <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And they cut down Benjamin, and pursued him from Nua closely till they came opposite Gabaa on the east. <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men: all these <i>were</i> men of might. <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>And the rest turned, and fled to the wilderness to the rock of Remmon; and the children of Israel picked off of them five thousand men; and the children of Israel went down after them as far as Gedan, and they smote of them two thousand men. <A name="47"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>And all that fell of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew sword in that day: all these were men of might. <A name="48"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>And the rest turned, and fled to the wilderness to the rock of Remmon, even <i>six</i> hundred men; and they sojourned four months in the rock of Remmon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/20-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>And the children of Israel returned to the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword from the city of Methla, even to the cattle, and every thing that was found in all the cities: and they burnt with fire the cities they found.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../judges/19.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Judges 19"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Judges 19" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../judges/21.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Judges 21"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Judges 21" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>